temenos
Americannoun
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temenoi,
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temene
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This avenue, or dromos, led to the sanctuary, the temenos, along a double row of immense basalt sphinxes, half woman, half lioness; half man, half bull.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus
It formed a spacious court about the temple, a sacred temenos as the Greeks would have called it, a haram as a modern Oriental would say.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
Thus the north porch gave admission to a temenos, but not according to present theory to the eastern cella of Athena.
From Problems in Periclean Buildings by G. W. (George Wicker) Elderkin
Numerous specimens of reliefs have been found in the temenos of Asclepios at Athens, and it is possible that the sculptures from the Elgin Collection, Nos.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
He placed a great stone gateway to the temenos, an outer temenos wall and gateway, with a colonnade between the gates.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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